Motorcycle Nation Podcast

Don’t Fix It. I have heard this so many times over my years yet there is something in the back of my mind that will not let me heed the advice. I must like the adventure of it all. Before I get any farther, this is the second rendition of this post. You will understand a little better shortly. You see, the blog was running fine but behind the scenes in the admin panel where you create your posts there was a message. This message was like a beacon to me as it screamed out, “Click Me…Click Me”. The message said that version 2.9.2 of Wordpress was out. Well I was on 2.7.1 so I felt that I “needed” to have the latest version so I got suckered in.

I installed an automatic upgrade plugin and clicked the button. The first 5 steps were progressing very well and then it happened. The dreaded fail message saying that the upgrade could not complete because it needed a newer version of mySQL. OK, no problem, leave me on 2.7.1 until I figure out how to upgrade mySQL through my host. Now, where do I click to get me out of here? The screen was stuck on the fail message with no way to return. So, I closed the window and attempted to log back in. No go. I was stuck with no way to update anything on my site.

That was Sunday evening. I labored through support forums and phone calls for the past few days trying to remedy the situation. I finally saw that there was a new Wordpress app for Android and I downloaded it to my phone last night and wrote the first version of this post. Later on I figured out how to upgrade mySQL and used FTP to enter into the files for the first time. It was all a frustrating but educational experience and today we are able to write again. I made the joke in the original post that I was going to have pretzel fingers from typing the post on the phone.

But, in the end all is well. Did I learn my lesson? Probably not. The only thing I can tell you is that when I feel that I “need” to change something on my bike that “ain’t broke” kick me. Really hard. In an unmentionable place.

Ride Safe